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Statistically Kennedy has been the worst GK in the league over the last 4 years by some distance. GK stats are sketchy but picking up a guy with 4 straight below average to awful seasons statistically would worry me. Not upset about losing him, we can pick up Tally Hall in the re-entry draft or bring in someone from outside the league.

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With Moor and Beitashour our back line is looking really solid. Add in a goalie and a d-mid to the top 3 offense we had last year (in terms of goals scored), and I think we have a chance to be really good.

Too many games last year we went down a goal early and spent the rest of the game chasing. If we can cut back on that and give Giovinco the opportunities he needs we should be much improved.

Statistically Kennedy has been the worst GK in the league over the last 4 years by some distance. GK stats are sketchy but picking up a guy with 4 straight below average to awful seasons statistically would worry me. Not upset about losing him, we can pick up Tally Hall in the re-entry draft or bring in someone from outside the league.

Again, Tally Hall just blew out his knee for the second time in three seasons. He's not going to be our starter. And Kennedy was one of the best goalies in the league two seasons ago, which is why Dallas signed him. He then lost the job.

EDIT: just checked, and kennedy was in the top eight in saves and shutouts for two straight seasons (2013/2014) before moving to Dallas. So, he certainly hasn't been the worst in the league by some distance. Not even close. Is he a first choice here? I don't think he's the best we can do. But he's been ahead of Bendik in every statistical category over that time.

I want to add one more winger so we can play him and Osorio as wingers. My post was about what kind of personnel we still need to attain, I would never in my life want to play with just 1 winger lol

Except that would mean playing with only one winger. My point is that Oso is in no way a winger. CM through and through. Having he (or anyone else besides maybe Lovitz) and a true winger on opposite flanks throws the whole balance off. If they want to play with wingers regularly then they'll need at least two, a third for consistency. Don't see that happening.

As I said before, Seba can move out wide which would normally work well but in TFC's case I think you need him on the ball as much as possible as a support striker. A change of formation could work to throw opposing defences off later in games, in which case they could do with an attacking winger a (or versatile forward - Findley but actually useful) but not as a primary option.

im still worried that we're going to be tactically inflexible with no real wingers on the roster again this year (Osorio and Delgado are slow CMs who do not possess the speed or 1v1 skills to be wingers)

Again, Tally Hall just blew out his knee for the second time in three seasons. He's not going to be our starter. And Kennedy was one of the best goalies in the league two seasons ago, which is why Dallas signed him. He then lost the job.

EDIT: just checked, and kennedy was in the top eight in saves and shutouts for two straight seasons (2013/2014) before moving to Dallas. So, he certainly hasn't been the worst in the league by some distance. Not even close. Is he a first choice here? I don't think he's the best we can do. But he's been ahead of Bendik in every statistical category over that time.

Kennedy's numbers have been worse than average dating back to 2012. He allowed 2.03 more goals this year than you'd expect a perfectly average keeper to allow, 11.48 more in 2014, 4.78 more in 2013, and 2.77 more in 2012. In 2011 he was statistically the best in the league, saving 6.81 more goals than you'd expect.

As I said goalkeeping statistics are sketchy, and the expected goals model has shown to be far less repeatable for goalkeepers, hence less reliable, than it is for outfield players. So if this was a one-season blip for Kennedy, I wouldn't care. 4 straight seasons below average though is a worry IMO.

I wasn't aware or maybe just forgot about Hall's injury problems though, so good call on that.

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He was at Chivas USA. Those seasons would have been a lot worse without him.

The model would, in theory, correct for that. You can read the full explanation here but to put it simply, it accounts for distance, angle, height, keeper positioning and keeper movement on each shot. So 2 foot tap-ins and other high quality scoring chances like that, where a goalkeeper would have basically no chance of making a save, would barely hurt their numbers under the model.

There also doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern in terms of goalkeepers posting poor xG stats and their teams having bad defenses. This year Bendik and Clark were at the bottom, both of whom were behind worse-than-averages defenses, but just above them are Robles and Kwarasey (Kwarasey in particular having a very good defense in front of him). 2014 has a lot of keepers that seemed to be hurt by their defense, but then in 2013 you have Cudicini at the bottom despite LA's league-best defense, or Hamid near the top despite D.C.'s 2nd-worst defense. So I don't know how much correlation there is between team performance and these stats.

Anyways it's a bit moot now. I'll be curious to see how Kennedy does next season.

But since TAM only pays down to the maximum cap hit, I can't see TFC having enough salary room to have 2 expensive players. They are going to have to get value for money instead.

I see us actually buying two players in January and then paying off their transfer fees via TAM, thus leaving only their salaries

Remember when we bought Laba for 1.5m the thing that made him a DP was the transfer fee, his salary wasnt actually DP level, imagine that situation again except the transfer fee is extinguished through TAM